TEMPEST in a Sentence
Learn TEMPEST from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
35 example sentences for TEMPEST, such as:
1. Its tempest sometimes proceeds from a grimace.
2. Wrath, tempest, claps of thunder, foam to the very ceiling.
3. A certain amount of tempest is always mingled with a battle.
4. In this part of the field there passed slowly the intense moments that precede the tempest.
5. A tempest, more furious than the one which had formerly driven him to Arras, broke loose within him.
2. Wrath, tempest, claps of thunder, foam to the very ceiling.
3. A certain amount of tempest is always mingled with a battle.
4. In this part of the field there passed slowly the intense moments that precede the tempest.
5. A tempest, more furious than the one which had formerly driven him to Arras, broke loose within him.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of TEMPEST
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tempest
n. (literary) a violent wind
n. a violent commotion or disturbance
Classic Sentence: (35 in 3 pages)
1 While he reasoned, the sky darkened, the winds blew from the four quarters, and the ship was assailed by a most terrible tempest within sight of the port of Lisbon.
2 He beseeches the tempest; the imperturbable tempest obeys only the infinite.
3 A certain amount of tempest is always mingled with a battle.
4 These squares were no longer battalions, they were craters; those cuirassiers were no longer cavalry, they were a tempest.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE PLATEAU OF MONT-SAINT-JEAN
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE PLATEAU OF MONT-SAINT-JEAN
5 Ney, bewildered, great with all the grandeur of accepted death, offered himself to all blows in that tempest.
6 Its tempest sometimes proceeds from a grimace.
7 Wrath, tempest, claps of thunder, foam to the very ceiling.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—JEAN VALJEAN STILL WEARS HIS ARM IN A SLING
Context Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—JEAN VALJEAN STILL WEARS HIS ARM IN A SLING
8 A tempest, more furious than the one which had formerly driven him to Arras, broke loose within him.
9 D'Artagnan has turned aside from Buckingham, whom she hates as she hates everyone she has loved, the tempest with which Richelieu threatened him in the person of the queen.
10 He had only to say: "Sugar, if I were you, I wouldn't--" and the tempest would break.
11 "Fiddle-dee-dee, Melly, what a tempest you make in a teapot," said Scarlett grudgingly, but she did not throw off the hand that stole around her waist.
12 "I consider this whole affair a tempest in a teapot," said Scarlett coldly, rattling her papers to indicate that as far as she was concerned the discussion was finished.
13 The helmsman who steered by that tiller in a tempest, felt like the Tartar, when he holds back his fiery steed by clutching its jaw.
14 The curling and spotless mists, which had been seen sailing above the hills toward the north, were now returning in an interminable dusky sheet, that was urged along by the fury of a tempest.
15 In this part of the field there passed slowly the intense moments that precede the tempest.
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